- Posted by Christopher Estep on October 27, 2008
A primary tactic of the Left is the constant battle to define the Right by trying to redefine reality itself. With the help of the MSM, they will fill a diatribe with lies and then build on those lies to make their real point. It is as effective as it is subversive.
Because of this ploy, a number of lies have become accepted as fact simply because they have been repeated so much:
- Joe McCarthy was responsible for Hollywood blacklisting.
- Silicone breast implants caused cancer.
- Abortion rights are in the Constitution.
- Nuclear power is dangerous
Not that it is any surprise, but they’re trying again but this time they are trying to bury Reaganism and conservatism with this strategy:
Having doubled-down on Reaganism, they know that a loss under these circumstances would be not just a momentary electoral set back, but a huge repudiation of conservative ideology, and a huge mandate for progressivism. And so conservatives are already trying to revise history to pretend these last few months of the campaign never happened.
Sirota, a socialist in his own right (he was Bernie Sanders’ press secretary) errs at a very fundamental level:
- John McCain is not a Reagan conservative, in spite of his own claims.
- Barack Obama has been trying to hide his Wilsonian progressive agenda.
And so Sirota attempts to cloak his own revisionism by preemptively accusing Republicans ahead of time of his own scheme and cloaks it in the term “conservative”.
It’s not going to work.
The only way Scrota’s scenario would be true would be if Obama had run as a “progressive” instead of trying to appear moderate. Most who will vote for Obama don’t think he supports progressive socialism. They don’t think he wants to take from one group and give to another. That’s socialism. They will scream (as Biden did) that the correct characterization of Obama as a Marxist is just an attack. If the electorate thought that progressivism was being voted on, they would reject it. One only needs to read the Huffington Post itself to see how the so-called progressives have chastised Obama for trying to move to the right.
Further, nobody in their right mind would characterize McCain as a conservative. McCain is pro-amnesty. He votes against tax cuts. He thinks corporate profits should fall under government scrutiny. He’s drunk the global warming Kool-Aid. He voted for the $700,000,000,000 bailout and never saw a “stimulus” he didn’t like.
If Obama is elected, the only mandate is that George W. Bush is an idiot, but not the sophomoric way the commulibs portray him. He’s an idiot because he thought “bipartisan” meant something other than “Democrats getting their way and still criticizing Republicans for it.”
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